Complete Accessibility
Ensures, as much as possible, complete accessibility for all potential vieweres of your website, including those with disabilites, and text-only terminals.
Lynx 1.0, Mosaic, all versions of Netscape Navigator, all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, AOL, others...
Text, some simple embellishing graphics.
Legacy Browsers
Allows for users of older and less-commonly used browsers to view your website.
Lynx 1.0, Mosaic 1.0, all versions of Netscape Navigator, all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, AOL
Text and graphics, some control over screen positioning
Most Common Browsers
Uses features supported by the most commonly used browsers
Lynx 2.0 Mosaic 2.0, MSIE 2.0, Navigator 2.0, IBM Web Explorer
Tables, JPG, imagemaps
Currently Updated Browers
Uses features supported by the most recently released versions of the major browsers
Navigator 2.0, MSIE 3.0
Frames, JavaScript, Java applets
Microsoft-Specific Features
Utilizes Microsoft-specific technologies
MSIE 3.0
ActiveX, VBScript
Netscape-specific
Utilizes features specific to Netscape Communicator
Netscape communicator (Navigator 4.0)
LAYER tag, Javascript stylesheets